I improvement jim bee-hives



THOMAS ATKINsoN, or MEMPHIs, TENNEssEE.

IM PROVEM'ENT WI'N BEE-H |VES.'

Speoification forming part of Letters Patent No. 89,841, dated May 11, 1869.

Be it known that I, THOMAS A'rKINsoN, of Memphis, county of Shelby, and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful l-Improvement in Bee-Hi'ves; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and eX- act description of the construction and opera' 4tion of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation; Fig. 2, view of bottom hive inverted; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation of the bottom in proper position.

The bot-tom is made with sloping sides provided with sliding wire ventilators. The en trances for the bees are through two inclined tubes opening at the center and some distance above the apex of the sides.

O, bottom board of hive D D, ventilators; VA A, terminns of entrances; B, entrance; E, lighting-board.

I construct my hive in a square or oblong` w square, to which I attach a bottom, O, made in a A-sha-pe, to which I attach one or more i'nclosed entrances iter'minating' near the center of the hlve. i.

To the bottom C, I have attached two Ventilators, made to slide in grooves for the purpose of removng them, when desired, for hiving the bees or other purposes, as shown in- D D The object of my invention is to provide Abeehives with a sloping entrance, B, terminating' lnear the center of the hive at A A, in combination with the A-Shaped bottom provided with sliding ventilators, in this lnanner giving the bees a better chance to guard the hive against moths or insects, while the sloping bottom O allows the bees easilT to .remove any filth or dead 'bees from the hive.

What -1 claim as my invention, andiwish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The entrance formed of the sloping incased tubes B B, in combination With the inclined bottom A A, when provided with the sliding' ventilators, as set forth.

THoMs ATKINsoN.

Witnesses: i

JNo. E. FINLEY, S. G. DODGE. 

